The
Braga council approved Monday, Braga project Smiling, which aims to
ensure the free access of the poorest people to oral health care. The program will provide 6000 consultations, in partnership with the NGO World Smile, an investment of 200,000 euros. To
benefit from this service, users will have to be marked by the Social
Action services of the local authority, the Parish Councils and IPSS of
the county, as explained by the Braga Municipal Council (CMB) in a
statement. Additionally,
this action will also cover all children and the elderly in the county,
with several actions in the 1st cycle schools, nursing homes and day
centers in the county, promoting oral hygiene and the training of
technicians and professionals work
in these spaces Braga to Smiling will be developed in partnership with
the NGO world smile that in nine years of existence, has conducted about
20 projects related to oral health, they were beneficidas more than
170,000 people worldwide . With
this partnership, it is expected that more than 5000 children and 500
elderly county benefiting from this action will perform to a total of
more than 6,000 consultations per year. This is a pioneer project in which the city of Braga takes health support policies among older; education
of the younger population and also a social inclusion policy, with the
possibility of greater integration into social and professional level
who have no access to oral health care, says the president of CMB,
Ricardo Rio, quoted by the same statement.
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